娘
むすめ · musume · JLPT N4 · noun
daughter
👧 娘 = 女 woman + 良 good: the good girl of the house, your daughter
The left part 女 means woman; the right part 良 means good. Sound hook: musume sounds like moo-sue-may, as in Moo, Sue may be my daughter. Used humbly for your own daughter; for someone else's, say 娘さん or お嬢さん.
娘 — woman radical 女 + 良 (good/phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 女 gives the meaning 'woman/female,' while 良 supplies the sound (close to niáng). Originally used for 'young woman' or 'girl,' it later shifted to mean 'mother' in many contexts, and serves as a respectful term for women in compounds like 姑娘.